So you want this "displayHelp" round trip to be available in all of your action classes with the behaviour in each case being identical, namely set a flag and return to a named forward. If this accurately describes your scenario then creating a BaseAction would certainly help. The Struts wiki has a simple description of a BaseAction scenario: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogBaseAction.
Combining this with a DispathAction in which you define a "displayHelp" method might be a neat solution, in this way you can eaily override the default implementation of "displayHelp" should you need to do so. See http://husted.com/struts/tips/002.html for more details on DispatchAction. -----Original Message----- From: Donie Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 November 2004 16:01 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Refreshing a page Hi Colm Yes, this is what I was thinking too but I was hoping add this functionality to every page in our app. Doing this would involve modifing each and every action class. Can this be done any other way? Coudl I subclass the Action class and use that instead of Action in all my forms? Thanks Donie -----Original Message----- From: McDonnell, Colm (MLIM) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 November 2004 16:04 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Refreshing a page Your button should submit the form, thereby sending you to its associated action class. In the action class set your flag, in the session (as per your suggestion) or preferably in the form bean, then forward back to where you came from. -----Original Message----- From: Donie Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 November 2004 15:46 To: Struts Mailing List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Refreshing a page Hi all I'm a struts newbie and I want to add a graphic button on a page (which is done) which, when pressed, will refresh the page and display some help for various items. I know how to add the help uisng logic tags etc but what I need to figure out (I already tried searching the archives) is as follows: 1) When button is pressed the current page is refreshed and inserts a boolean in the session data 2) That flag can then be used in the logic tag to decide when to display the help texts Many thanks Donie -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
